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Creating an orange utopia : Eliza Lovell Tibbets & the birth of California's citrus industry / Patricia Ortlieb & Peter Economy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ortlieb, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tibbets, Eliza Lovell, 1825-1898.
- Tibbets, Eliza Lovell.
- Oranges--California--Riverside--History.
- Oranges.
- Orange industry--California--Riverside--History.
- Orange industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (103 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- West Chester, Pa. : Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- California's citrus industry owes a huge debt to the introduction of the navel orange tree--in fact, to two trees in particular, the parent trees of the vast groves of navel oranges that exist in California today.Those trees were planted by a woman named Eliza Lovell Tibbets.
- Contents:
- Westward, to Cincinnati
- Weddings, wars, and new horizons
- Fredericksburg : paradise glimpsed
- The DC years
- Riverside : paradise found
- The long road to paradise
- The good years
- Paradise lost
- Eliza's legacy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87785-617-6
- OCLC:
- 923422098
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